Customized fallbak page

[Gustavo Mateus]

Hi Volker,

that is what I imagined.
I'll set and ip range for fallbak servers and done!

Thanks

Dr. Volker Jaenisch wrote:
> Hi Gustavo!
>
> Gustavo Mateus schrieb:
>> I have 10 virtual servers (http) running on one director with 5 real 
>> servers and a separated fallback server running lighttpd.
>>
>> I want to customize a fallback server page for each of the 10 web 
>> sites running on the virtual servers.
>> The way I imagine it can be done is setting lighttpd to respond to 10 
>> different ips. One ip on the fallback server for every virtual server 
>> that I have.
>>
>> Is there a way to avoid that? I dont know, some way to use virtual 
>> hosts and use just one IP for fallback server?
> Just to get you right:
> * You have 10 say "domains" running on 5 realservers.
> * If one domain dies you like to  bring up a "sorry-Page" that is 
> individual for every domain.
>
> If these guesses are your intention then you will have to use 10 
> different IPs on the seperate fallback-Server mapped via the 
> http-daemon to your individual sorry-sites.
>
> The loadbalancing daemon ldirectord, or keepalived, or ipvsmand knows 
> when the last real server of the domain is dead and
> directs the inkoming IP packets now to the sorry-server IP. But it can 
> not change them to an other URL/domain since this information is 
> encapsulated in the Package HTTP-Protocol content.
>
> If the many IPs itself are your problem (limited number) you may use 
> different Ports on the same IP. But the configuration
> overhead will remain the same.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Volker
>